#SolitaryWasps #MasonWasps #Megachile #Symmorphus
The Suitability of Artificial Nests as Nesting Sites for Cavity-Nesting Wasps and Bees (Hymenoptera, Aculeata)
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A level area of flower-rich herbaceous vegetation, with buildings in the background.
Lesser Marsh Grasshopper. A straw-coloured grasshopper with a pale wing-stripe, against a background of dried grass.
A Pantaloon Bee, with its rear towards the camera, as it excavates sand from its nest burrow.
Bee-wolf. A wasp with a broad black-and-yellow abdomen, sitting on a leaf.
Exploring the Rochester Riverside area, currently being developed, for Orthoptera. Flower-rich, "brownfield" vegetation heaving with Field, Meadow, & Lesser Marsh Grasshoppers. Also Pantaloon Bees & LOTS of Bee-wolves. #ukorthoptera #bees #solitarybees #wasps #solitarywasps #brownfield #KentNature
Spotted a solitary wasp on Eryngium at my daughter's. iRecord suggests Gorytes laticinctus, but Nottingham seems to be at the northern edge of it's range. Can anyone confirm the id please?
#nottswildlife
#solitarywasps
The insects have been enjoying the carrots from last year that I left to go to seed. Spotted this solitary wasp Ectemnius continuus a member of the square-headed wasps.
#nottswildlife
#solitarywasps
Three-banded Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus trifasciatus).
A Three-banded Mason Wasp inspecting a bee hotel in the garden.
#wasps #solitarywasps #wildlifegarden #bugsky #ukwildlife
Caught Red-handed. Or should I say Red-tailed. Ruby Tailed Cuckoo Wasp (Chrysis ignita) Waiting for a Solitary Tube Wasp (Ancistrocerus gazella) to leave so it can pop in and lay its own egg in the Solitary Wasps egg. Nature can be cruel. #SolitaryWasps
Kleptoparasitism is fascinating in #solitarybees & #solitarywasps - here is a little example & stars a #jewel of a wasp #entomology
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Logpile fun in #greenwichpark - talking about #logpile #fun in π¦πΉand #invertebrates and #solitarybees & #solitarywasps
#wildlondon #wildaustria
youtube.com/shorts/amt-I... one for @joebeale.bsky.social and others around #greenwich
#2in1 a Mammoth wasp and a furrow bee #solitarybees #solitarywasps - taken on 1 of the #greenroof wonders of the world #lingotto in #turin #italy #insects #urbanwildlife #UrbanNature
#Bee wolfs are fantastic #wasps - they prey on ##honeybees & take their holes lay there eggs into the #bees. Sometimes they get discarded by the holes #entomology #solitarywasps #insects